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Open Letter to Rush Limbaugh (and John O'Neill)

I am proudly one of six consecutive generations of United States servicemen and women dating from the Spanish-American War. The youngest of our family is currently serving in Iraq. Why do I tell you this? For all that is precious in America, I ask to be permitted a brief moment to be clearly heard by you in the current national wilderness of cultural insanity.

Mr. Limbaugh, you've asked openly, “Why aren’t conservatives listening to me?” Plain speaking and straight shooting, typical of conservatives, we believe you are wrong. Think of fifteen pejorative adjectives; string them together and then append the word “wrong” to gauge the depth of conservative disaffection with last week's radio performance.

Mr. Limbaugh, in moments of candor, I suspect you would admit that you no longer live on the same streets that we do, nor walk in the same shoes we do. Nor do Congressmen. Nor do Governors. You have rightfully earned and profoundly deserve the elevated social status you enjoy. Your success and lifestyle does many positive and a few negative things for you. Two that are negative, but important are: (1) Your success relieves you of many mundane concerns most citizens must contend with, and (2), It also deprives you of contemporaneous knowledge of life in grass-roots America, other than fond memories from younger days.

I admire you … Ok, I revere your talent … and for once in your esteemed life, I believe you are grotesquely on the wrong side of history. This all involves your rant last week regarding voting choices of conservatives in the 2006 mid-term November elections. Friday, October 20th was a tipping point.

Mr. Limbaugh, you seem to want to divide the known universe between Republicans and Democrats, when in fact the political debate should be about Liberals in the Republican Party and Extreme Liberals in the Democratic Party. There are not five conservatives in all of Congress and only one libertarian. Left wing America is the Republican Party. Conservatives do not share their liberal ideology.

Mr. Limbaugh, I believe we jointly hold the view that the predominant orientation of politicians and the main stream media is wildly liberal. The left-wing bent that conservatives complain about not only encompasses federal and state governments, city councils, and primary and secondary school systems, but attorneys, court systems, doctors, police departments, even the leadership of the U.S. Armed Forces. Left-wing ideology pervades the CIA, FBI, and State Department through all grades of the Federal Civil Service.

Legislation at all levels of government reflects the multi-decade cultural shift in America - which conservatives view as a downhill slide from greatness on a trajectory resembling a gliding anvil. There are a number of symptoms. Just to mention a few, (1) political correctness, which by definition means that people cannot be honest and freedom of speech has been extinguished, (2) refusal by governmental entities to enforce existing laws, (3) a judicial system that seeks to punish the ‘person’ rather than the ‘crime’, assuming a crime occurred and prosecution isn’t simply to achieve an intended social or political outcome, (4) a judicial system that has become an insidious oligarchy, (5) institutionalized discrimination of one citizen over another, and (6), a secular rejection of all faith and an intense attempt to prohibit any visible or audible vestiges of the Christian or Jewish faith in public discourse. There are thousands more. These few make the point that conservatism is but a faint memory in America and that our disintegrating “culture” is what the November mid-term elections are all about.

The critical issue in American politics is a lack of conservatives in broad segments of society, particularly in coastal areas where income redistribution dominates. I have watched with a heavy heart as liberalism, a debilitating disease borne of ignorance and self-interest, has assimilated entire minority cultures in my lifetime.

You impress me as being too astute not to have figured it out. Assailed from every direction, you’re telling your daily radio audience how much worse it will be if we conservatives vote for an extreme liberal in the Democratic Party or intentionally fail to vote. History supports your thesis. We all know you’re right. There is not one conservative who disagrees with you – not one.

Where we profoundly differ is that you want conservatives, lifetime members of the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies, to ‘settle for’ what we are being told is all we can expect, all we can achieve, lower our standards, expect less and to vote for corrupt liberal Congressmen who have dealt us this national travesty of a losing hand. We’re simply not going to do it. As a nation, we are better; we deserve better; and we will not quit until we receive better. No conservative is going to buy bologna sliced that thin. No real conservative is going to accept governmental redistribution knowing other Americans were skinned alive to provide it. Somebody in America has to be a patriot. The question is: Who will rise to the challenge and who will be but a lemming? Conservatives will not be lemmings; nor will conservatives agree with you that the king (Congress or the President) is wearing clothes. No conservative will vote for someone willfully doing harm to the United States of America.

Furthermore, the mere fact that our choices on the November ballet are between open-borders liberals in the Republican Party (Jon Kyl, * apprentice to John McCain) and god-forsaken extreme liberals in the Democratic Party is partially your fault.

That’s right; follow this closely please. If you had concentrated on conservatism, individualism and liberty instead of simply Republican vs. Democrat, and had focused the debate more on excellence, initiative and integrity, pointing out the inherent fallacy of choosing between a liberal and an extreme liberal, some of what is happening might not have gained traction. If you had been advocating self reliance instead of income redistribution, truth instead of political correctness, ethics and morality instead of corruption and sexual perversion, the outcome might have been somewhat different. Now, with your voting recommendations to conservatives, you give every indication of directly or indirectly endorsing liberal fascism espoused by President Bush and liberal Republicans in Congress.

“No,” you adamantly say, “It’s not my fault.” While absolutely true that it is not your fault, you are undeniably among the ruling media elite, even a Pied Piper. You know this to be a fact. You are ever so quick to take credit for reason, infallible logic and highly accurate judgment. Whether you care to admit it or not, you are partially responsible for having led us to where America is today - where “we” are today. Otherwise, if this location was not your intended destination, then you, as “The True Majarashii,” would have, could have, and should have led us in a different direction.

But fear not for us. Ultimately you will be proud of your conservative graduates. We are proud conservative Americans. We are not among the mindless, liberal, uneducated, media-indoctrinated, government-sustained, and consumed with self-interest politicians or rank and file. We are not content to accept liberal admonitions, from either Hillary Clinton or Karl Rove that we can never be expected to know or understand the inner workings and hidden mechanisms of that great sidereal movement called self-government. Most conservatives are the original boy scouts (trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean and reverent). It would be hard for anyone but liberals and the ACLU to demean that value system and even harder to find a better value system outside a church.

Yes, Rush, I genuinely hold you personally responsible. It is my opinion that somewhere along the way you may have lost sight of what is precious in America (clue: liberty). Your own experiences in Florida should have opened your eyes to see what is being done to all Americans in countless different ways and in innumerable jurisdictions. But your concern was your own ox because it was the one being gored. Do you think you are somehow unique except in God-given talent? Like a 2x4 across your skull, your experiences with the NFL should have given you a clue, a hint to help you realize that everyday people are being hammered for politically correct motives if for no other reason than to extend liberal control.

Yet you refuse stubbornly to look out of one eye or see out of the other. Is it unfair to speculate or to ask if you've been tactically outmaneuvered in your efforts to prevent Congress from metastasizing even further to the left?

Last week you began chiding American conservatives to vote for liberal Republicans as we approach the November 2006 mid-term elections. In doing so, you have now asked conservatives to accept mediocrity, abject dependency and socialism - because you obviously think we deserve no better. You must be the only one who doesn't understand that conservatives are not going to vote to continue the policies of liberal, socially and fiscally irresponsible Republicans and Democrats in Congress, and conservatives will not support the one-world-order, borderless America of the Democratic Party and President George W. Bush.

You cannot even begin to imagine the contempt conservatives hold for national leaders in the current Administration and this liberal Congress who would start a war, any war, without the will to win. Why would Congress start a war without the will to win!? Liberals may not like the battle methods, girlie men that they are, and that’s too bad, but winning decisively always saves lives, both American and non-combatant lives. Winning decisively happens in months, not years. You may quote me: Win decisively, or lose inevitably and live in infamy. And, if I understand you correctly, you now ask us to vote for liberal Republicans who are more consumed with self-interest than winning a war in which Americans are dying? May God have mercy on us all, because Islam, the Democratic Party and their brand of socialism will not!

Conservatives seem to me to be America’s political incarnation of the few, the proud and the brave, and we will not surrender, not to liberalism, not to socialism, not to Islam, not to defeatism, not to appeasement, and not to the Democratic Socialist Party of America. Conservatives will never submit to 20-30 million illegal aliens marching in the streets dictating the terms of surrender and politicians who refuse to do anything about it.

Unquestionably, the Democratic Party has given new meaning to the term “evil,” both in Congress and America’s judicial venues. However, many citizens from both sides of the aisle view Republicans in general as a national disgrace. Republicans (faux conservatives) have given new meaning to the characterization of “irresponsible incompetence,” which some see as the predictable end result of “compassionate conservatism.”

Mr. Limbaugh, you simply have no idea how badly you have underestimated conservative America. You seem to think conservative disaffection in the November election is solely the by-product of media distortion of the state of the economy to influence votes, or the certified cut and run cowardice of liberals in both parties, or inflation rates, unemployment, absence of terrorist attacks, the Patriot Act and civil liberties, and other equally important but irrelevant national issues. In one word, the November elections swing on the American "culture," and conservative American’s are angry.

Generally speaking, the sum total of today's judicial activism and Congressional legislation creates tomorrow's national culture, always in less than ten years. Conservatives, when they go to their polling places in November, will do nothing less than repudiate the culture forcibly imposed upon them by Congress (Democrats and liberal Republicans) and by the judicial system.

Yes, the issues include illegal immigration, in-state tuition, illegal voting, identification not required to vote, refusal to enforce both national and state laws, welfare fraud, drugs and violent crime, human smuggling, document fraud, sanctuary cities, chain migration, anchor babies, free medical care, and on and on. Yes, conservatives are fed up with institutionalized discrimination in education and the workplace. Conservatives are angry over ever-growing irresponsible taxation and income redistribution. If all Americans were truly born “equal,” why are so many still on welfare?

Yes, one of the issues is the abysmal state of education in the United States since the federal government unconstitutionally seized the education system. With absolute certainty, the issues include the loss of free speech, loss of domestic corporate manufacturing and millions of associated jobs, political correctness, Pledge of Allegiance, Ten Commandments, Medicare reform legislation, earmarks, reluctance to abolish the estate tax or adopt some form of flat or consumption tax, refusal to abolish the 16th Amendment, and unwillingness to reform Social Security (Americans be damned).

Without a doubt, the issues include eminent domain, TSA absurdities, attempts to seize, regulate and tax the internet, unwillingness to safeguard classified material, willingness to sell national secrets and WMD technology for campaign funding, willingness to sell American harbors, airports, and highways to foreign interests, socialized medicine, trade agreements that sacrifice United States sovereignty and permit United States citizens to be sued by foreign interests, voting to construct the border wall only under the most intense public pressure and then refusing to fund it, and finally abdicating the entire border wall project to the whims of the pro-illegal alien Bush Administration. The end result is that United States national security is orbiting in ever decreasing concentric circles until someday it will fly up its own terrorist attack. What will Congressional and Gubernatorial liberals have traded for the lives of those who will die? How many votes will make it worth it?

Most egregious was not Congress’ voting to go to war in Afghanistan and Iraq, but trying to deceitfully shift the responsibility for their own decisions to the Administration and intelligence agencies; and after voting nearly unanimously to go to war, undermining the Commander-in-Chief at every turn. Most Democrats and liberal Republicans do not want to be seen as weak and unwilling to defend the United States of America. But the fact is, liberals don't believe in war of any kind for any motive, even self-defense, and Congress would unilaterally disarm both the military and all citizens if given the chance. The reality is: liberals voted for something very abhorrent to them and did so only in political self-interest. Predictably, ever since, Congressional liberals have evaded any responsibility for their votes in a manner similar to their unwillingness to accept responsibility for anything else in history.

'Despicable' is the word that best describes Congress’ refusing to give judicial appointments an up or down vote, the McCain/Feingold legislation, tobacco litigation, refusal to permit school choice, refusal to permit importation of prescription drugs, wholesale usurping of state’s rights by the federal government and administrative agencies, unrelenting judicial activism without permitting a democratic vote, domestic and foreign abortion at U.S. taxpayer expense, embryonic stem cell research at taxpayer expense, Social Security benefits for illegal aliens, prohibition of public prayer and displays of faith, ignoring constitutional limitations of power and jurisdiction, and on and on and on for another ten single-spaced pages.

What has Congress done to stop it? NAFT, except to gleefully enable our continued cultural demise, as each Congressman individually accumulates personal wealth by selling votes and influence for campaign contributions.

The aforementioned constitutes nothing less than national socialist insanity to a conservative, a cultural meltdown, and Mr. Limbaugh, you want conservatives to vote for more of the same? Anyone who would ask conservatives to vote for their own cultural demise brings back memories of atrocities from the last century in foreign lands. No conservative will ever accept dhimmis status, whether imposed by American liberals in this Congress, by black liberation theology, or as will be imposed someday by Islam. There appears to be very little difference in reality – if any, between the Democratic Party and Islam when it comes to their tolerance of divergent faiths, their tactics toward political opponents, or the issues of social inequality, oppressive taxation, protection of children, and reverence for life.

I lament. If only you were still one of us and less of an advocate of egalitarian ideals. Hopefully, you’ve only strayed due to distraction or fatigue. It is important that when you look, that you are able to see. Mr. Limbaugh, would you please let me clean your glasses? With this letter, I am respectfully trying to do just that, and no more.

You currently face the biggest questions of your professional life. The first question is: “Are you going to be an entertainer or a leader?” To be a leader would require some personal sacrifice on your part which is the hallmark of all great Americans and every active duty and retired member of the United States Armed Forces and National Guard. My family and I sacrificed for this nation for almost a century, multiple lifetimes spent serving and preserving our American birthright – at the daily risk of our mortal existence. Now, for all that is precious in America, it’s your turn. The second question is: “Is it too late?”

This isn’t an election. November begins a cultural and economic tsunami. The outcome may not be to my liking or to yours, but I voted democratically, and legally, and only once, and I will live by the decisions of my fellow American citizens, even if I don’t deserve it – which every liberal throughout American history has refused to do – i.e., accept the will of the people. But be very, very careful however, because conservatives were not bred to carry water and will not serve others for long, particularly the self-anointed.

Mr. Limbaugh, when you get a chance and if you have the opportunity, please extend to me the personal kindness of forwarding this letter and my strong sentiments to another well-intentioned public figure, Mr. John O’Neill, author of “Unfit For Command.” I sincerely hope he can find where he misplaced his conservative philosophy and American citizenship.

John O'Neill: Don't Repeat The Mistake of 1974
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=17635

Red State Patriot

* See archives of www.redstatepatriot.com, “Jon Kyl is an Open-Borders Advocate”

Posted October 24, 2006 01:53 AM
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